My Favourite Quotes

10 of my favourite quotes:

  1. Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose ~ C. Wright Mills
  2. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy ~ Oscar Wilde
  3. People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
  4. Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable ~ Sydney J. Harris
  5. An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi
  6. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight ~ Kahlil Gibran
  7. What does not destroy me, makes me strong ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
  8. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian ~ Dennis Wholey
  9. True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
  10. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time ~ Mark Twain
What's your favourite?